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Dennis expects to promote more young F1 drivers

Ron Dennis believes McLaren's partnership with Honda will allow the team to promote its young drivers in to F1 race seats in coming seasons. With Jenson Button retained alongside Fernando Alonso, Kevin Magnussen has had to drop back to the role of test and reserve driver alongside Stoffel Vandoorne. With Nyck de Vries and Ben Barnicoat on the young driver programme, Dennis said Magnussen can benefit from a year's testing and believes the Honda approach will allow McLaren to promote the other three in to race seats at other teams. “As I had the very painful challenge of trying to explain why the decision was taken in favour of Jenson, I pointed out to [Magnussen] that I truly believe that...
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